This is actually just right to what was decided yesterday.

It is necessary to act hastily, at once:

1) to draw up the text of a directive from the Central Committee to all the "nationals" on military unity (merger)*;

* "Draft directive of the Central Committee on military unity" see V. I. Lenin. Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 38; pp. 400-401. Editor.

2) to give it also to the press for a series of articles;

3) on universal military training (take 100%, not 75% 349) at once, today, to prepare a draft decree;

4) to calculate: 24,000 command personnel. If we take one per 10, that means we can create an army of 240,000.

Verify and adopt as the norm at once for the Central Military Administration* as for Russia, so also for Ukraine.

Written April 24, 1919

First published in 1942

in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript